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Application Of The Strategic Alignment Model And Information Technology Governance Concepts To Support Network Centric Warfare, Jennifer R. Valentine Mar 2006

Application Of The Strategic Alignment Model And Information Technology Governance Concepts To Support Network Centric Warfare, Jennifer R. Valentine

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis analyzes the fields of E-Business and Network Centric Warfare (NCW) in order to identify gaps and overlaps within the two bodies of knowledge. Successful implementation of E-business is more than simply applying a technology to an existing business model. It is about evolving business processes and structures in order for the organization to accommodate for this new dynamic environment. This thesis proposes that while the two areas' success fundamentally resides in the implementation and exploitation of technology, it is only through sound IT Governance policies and strategic alignment practices that success can be measured. Technology has the ability …


Performance Analysis Of A Cooperative Search Algorithm For Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Under Limited Communication Conditions, Kevin M. Morris Mar 2006

Performance Analysis Of A Cooperative Search Algorithm For Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Under Limited Communication Conditions, Kevin M. Morris

Theses and Dissertations

This research investigates the impacts of realistic wireless communications upon a group of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) utilizing a distributed search algorithm. The UAVs are used to survey an area for mobile targets and they require communication to cooperatively locate the targets. The mobile targets do not continually radiate energy, which exacerbates the search effort; a UAV could fly directly over a target and not detect it. A simulation of cooperative UAVs is implemented using the OPNET Modeler network simulation tool. The search performance of a group of UAVs is observed when communication range, data rate, and the number of …


Developing An Aggregate Marginal Cost Per Flying Hour Model For The U.S. Air Force's F-15 Fighter Aircraft, Patrick D. Armstrong Mar 2006

Developing An Aggregate Marginal Cost Per Flying Hour Model For The U.S. Air Force's F-15 Fighter Aircraft, Patrick D. Armstrong

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis applies econometric techniques to build a "marginal" cost per flying hour model for the U.S. Air Force's F-15CD and E fleets. It used monthly economic, programmatic, operational, and climatology data from FY01-FY04 to construct Depot Level Reparable (DLR) and Consumable (CONS) models on the aggregate level. It incorporated the use of panel data analysis to explore the effect each of the independent variables had on the CPFH rate by time and by base. This allowed it to capture not only the temporal (time) interactions, but also the spatial (cross-sectional) interactions, providing a more robust analysis of the dynamics …


An Epidemiological Approach To Terrorism, Kjirstin A. Bentson Mar 2006

An Epidemiological Approach To Terrorism, Kjirstin A. Bentson

Theses and Dissertations

There are many types of models for counterterrorism, explaining different problems that the military faces in the fight against terrorism. This thesis proposes that one of the fundamental assumptions underlying existing models of counterterrorism is that the struggle with terrorists can be understood as a war in the traditional sense of the term. We propose to rethink the struggle against terrorism as a fight against an infection. The epidemic of terrorist ideology within part of the world is a result, from this perspective, of the infectiousness of that ideology. Using the insights of the field of the epidemiology of ideas, …


A Minimum Effort Control Approach To Guided Munition Path Planning, Jeffrey M. Borkowski Mar 2006

A Minimum Effort Control Approach To Guided Munition Path Planning, Jeffrey M. Borkowski

Theses and Dissertations

An advance in the development of smart munitions entails autonomously modifying target selection during flight to maximize the value of the target being destroyed. Target identification and classification provides a basis for target value, which is used in conjunction with multi-target tracks to determine an optimal aim point for the munition. A unique guidance law can be constructed that exploits attribute and kinematic data from an onboard video sensor. This thesis develops an innovative path planning algorithm that provides an obstacle avoidance function while navigating the munition toward the highest value target. The foundation of this path planning method is …


A Comparative Assessment Of Knowledge Management Programs Across The United States Armed Services, Patrick L. Booker Mar 2006

A Comparative Assessment Of Knowledge Management Programs Across The United States Armed Services, Patrick L. Booker

Theses and Dissertations

Knowledge is a corporate resource that is required to accomplish business processes, to make decisions, and to improve efficiency and effectiveness. To completely take advantage of the benefits of knowledge, organizations must harvest and leverage the collective knowledge of the entire workforce. This can be achieved through effective knowledge management. Knowledge management involves processes to create, to store, and transfer knowledge to accomplish business objectives and to achieve a competitive advantage. The United States armed services have also recognized the benefits of knowledge management in meeting the emerging challenges of modern warfare. This study investigated knowledge management programs in the …


A Study Of Near Field Data Transformed To The Far Field For A Canonical Pec Scatterer, E. Matthew Cady Mar 2006

A Study Of Near Field Data Transformed To The Far Field For A Canonical Pec Scatterer, E. Matthew Cady

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to analyze the error associated with the Image Based Near Field to Far Field Transformation (IB NFFFT) for a canonical perfectly electrically conductive (PEC) scatterer. This research compares two groups of data: far field RCS predicted by the IB NFFFT and far field RCS predicted by X-Patch. The IB NFFFT requires a complete set of calibrated monostatic near field scattering data of the object. A detailed description is given of the configuration of the measurement facilities and procedures that were required to obtain the calibrated near field scattering data, as well as the process …


An Asymmetrical Look At Air Force Human Capital Management: More Emphasis On Qualifications And Less On Rank, Daniel M. Romano Mar 2006

An Asymmetrical Look At Air Force Human Capital Management: More Emphasis On Qualifications And Less On Rank, Daniel M. Romano

Theses and Dissertations

This research explored an asymmetrical concept of personnel management, specifically whether status, rank, is an artificial barrier to employing qualified enlisted personnel in some company grade officer duties. It takes the approach under the Human Capital Theory and questions whether rank plays a roll in effective performance and whether eliminating rank as a criterion to employment, in some duties, can support Air Force transformation efforts, without negatively affecting culture (i.e. chain-of-command, customs and courtesies). It describes a concept where more emphasis is put on meeting the knowledge, education, experience, and training qualifications and the required rank be interchangeable between enlisted …


Factors Affecting The Transfer Of Basic Combat Skills Training In The Air Force, Rodney E. Mccraine Mar 2006

Factors Affecting The Transfer Of Basic Combat Skills Training In The Air Force, Rodney E. Mccraine

Theses and Dissertations

During Operations ENDURING FREEDOM (OEF) and IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF), many Airmen in support career fields were deployed to hostile environments like Afghanistan and Iraq. Deployments of this nature are a departure from normal Air Force operations where support personnel are normally far from the front lines of battle. The purpose of this research was to understand the factors that affect the transfer of basic combat skills training from the classroom to the battlefield. Specifically, this thesis sought to answer five research questions addressing the current combat skills training requirements, the perceived training transfer of basic combat skills, the factors that …


Beyond Encounters: Religion, Ethnicity, And Violence In The Early Modern Atlantic World, 1450-1700, Brian Sandberg Mar 2006

Beyond Encounters: Religion, Ethnicity, And Violence In The Early Modern Atlantic World, 1450-1700, Brian Sandberg

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Through Naval Practice And The Association With Foreigners’: French Nobles’ Participation In Mediterranean Religious Struggles, Brian Sandberg Mar 2006

Through Naval Practice And The Association With Foreigners’: French Nobles’ Participation In Mediterranean Religious Struggles, Brian Sandberg

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

This article examines a group of ‘military migrants’, French nobles who engaged in Mediterranean maritime warfare, in an attempt to reconsider religious violence in the early modern period. The great religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have often been completely divorced from one another in early modem historiography— the Ottoman-Christian wars in the Mediterranean treated separately from the Protestant- Catholic conflicts within Europe. French nobles engaged in religious conflict within France throughout the long French Religious Wars of 1562-1629, but they also were very active in other religious struggles throughout Europe and the Mediterranean. Analyzing French nobles’ maritime …


Cyber-Terrorism: Legal Principle And Law In The United Kingdom, Clive Walker Mar 2006

Cyber-Terrorism: Legal Principle And Law In The United Kingdom, Clive Walker

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

No abstract provided.


From The Archives: Valuing Innovation Where You Find It, Parameters Editors Mar 2006

From The Archives: Valuing Innovation Where You Find It, Parameters Editors

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


The Definition Of Terrorism And The Challenge Of Relativism, Cyrille Begorre-Bret Mar 2006

The Definition Of Terrorism And The Challenge Of Relativism, Cyrille Begorre-Bret

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


From Militant Democracy To The Preventive State?, András Sajó Mar 2006

From Militant Democracy To The Preventive State?, András Sajó

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Property Tax Reassessment: Who Needs It?, Stewart E. Sterk, Mitchell L. Engler Mar 2006

Property Tax Reassessment: Who Needs It?, Stewart E. Sterk, Mitchell L. Engler

Articles

No abstract provided.


The Statesman, V. 49, I. 35, Stony Brook University Feb 2006

The Statesman, V. 49, I. 35, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 49, i. 35


Rotunda - Vol 85, No 17 - Feb 24, 2006, Longwood University Feb 2006

Rotunda - Vol 85, No 17 - Feb 24, 2006, Longwood University

Rotunda

No abstract provided.


February 23, 2006, James Madison University Feb 2006

February 23, 2006, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2000-2009

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.


The Legality Of Governmental Responses To Terrorism And The Dichotomous Characterization Of Terrorists As Criminals Or Enemy Combatants, Gregory E. Maggs Feb 2006

The Legality Of Governmental Responses To Terrorism And The Dichotomous Characterization Of Terrorists As Criminals Or Enemy Combatants, Gregory E. Maggs

ExpressO

This article argues that the United States and other nations ought to create specialized laws to regulate governmental responses to terrorism, rather than debating whether the current laws of war or the current rules of law enforcement should apply. These specialized laws would see terrorism as a problem that sometimes lies between traditional crime and traditional warfare, and would establish rules designed to address governmental responses to it.


Microsoft And Trinko: A Tale Of Two Courts, Spencer Weber Waller Feb 2006

Microsoft And Trinko: A Tale Of Two Courts, Spencer Weber Waller

ExpressO

In this comment for an upcoming symposium in the Utah Law Review in honor of the retirement of John Flynn, I examine the 2001 opinion of the DC Circuit in Microsoft and the Supreme Court's 2004 opinion in Trinko and compare them as attempts to comprehensively define the law of monopolization. Using the insights of the legal process school, I examine which opinion succeeds as a form of reasoned elaboration and which opinion will gain acceptance among lower courts and commentators in this vital area of antitrust law. I conclude that the Microsoft opinion should stand the test of time …


Genetic Residues Of Ancient Migrations: An End To Biological Essentialism And The Reification Of Race, William M. Richman Feb 2006

Genetic Residues Of Ancient Migrations: An End To Biological Essentialism And The Reification Of Race, William M. Richman

ExpressO

No abstract provided.


Daily Eastern News: February 14, 2006, Eastern Illinois University Feb 2006

Daily Eastern News: February 14, 2006, Eastern Illinois University

February

No abstract provided.


Necessity, Torture And Existential Politics, Christopher Kutz Feb 2006

Necessity, Torture And Existential Politics, Christopher Kutz

ExpressO

This paper takes up the political theory sketched by the Office of Legal Counsel memorandum of August 1, 2002. That memorandum proposed a theory of executive emergency powers, including the power to use torturous interrogation techniques otherwise barred by domestic and international law. According to the memorandum, both the power to deploy torture and other forms of coercive interrogation, and the general freedom of the executive to direct policy in times of war, are grounded in a justification of necessity. The central aim of my paper is to explore the force and limits of necessity claims in moral and political …


Lincoln, The Constitution Of Necessity, And The Necessity Of Constitutions, Michael Kent Curtis Feb 2006

Lincoln, The Constitution Of Necessity, And The Necessity Of Constitutions, Michael Kent Curtis

ExpressO

Some invoke the legacy of Abraham Lincoln to justify largely unchecked executive power which in times of war trumps constitutional limits and guarantees of liberty. This article suggests that the Lincoln model is a poor one to follow: because some of his actions were inconsitent with democratic government, because the administration invoked the doctrine of necessity when many of the cabinet thought no necessity existed, and because in the end, Lincoln himself refused to follow his logic to its inevitable conclusion. It critiques two article by Michael Paulsen invoking Lincoln to justify largely unchecked executive power.


Rotunda - Vol 85, No 15 - Feb 10, 2006, Longwood University Feb 2006

Rotunda - Vol 85, No 15 - Feb 10, 2006, Longwood University

Rotunda

No abstract provided.


Volume Cxxiii, Number 15, February 10, 2006, Lawrence University Feb 2006

Volume Cxxiii, Number 15, February 10, 2006, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.


The Hilltop 2-9-2006, Hilltop Staff Feb 2006

The Hilltop 2-9-2006, Hilltop Staff

The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010

No abstract provided.


Death By Bluebook, Erik M. Jensen Feb 2006

Death By Bluebook, Erik M. Jensen

Faculty Publications

This review considers a novel about life (and death) on the University of Chicago Law Review, where editors and associates seem to do little but have sex, connive to get ahead, have sex, kill (with Gunther's con law casebook, no less), and have sex. The reviewer, who didn't attend the U of C law school, believes it all.


The Bates Student - Volume 135 Number 15 - February 7, 2006, Bates College Feb 2006

The Bates Student - Volume 135 Number 15 - February 7, 2006, Bates College

The Bates Student

No abstract provided.